I highly recommend the audio for this as it is read by the author herself. The narration made me laugh out loud while doing chores. The humor is wittyI highly recommend the audio for this as it is read by the author herself. The narration made me laugh out loud while doing chores. The humor is witty, self deprecating, and so accessible. The one section read by her daughter Billie is just not as fun which is where we lost the star. Also the audio does not do a good job of telling you where there are section breaks so sometimes I lost the flow.

Still recommend, especially if you are a fan!

I’m revising this and giving it 5 stars because of how much this book resonated with me. ...more

**spoiler alert** I'm going to admit that I got to chapter 7 of this book only. But I just couldn't go any further. Every fantasy genre trope has alre**spoiler alert** I'm going to admit that I got to chapter 7 of this book only. But I just couldn't go any further. Every fantasy genre trope has already been used: poor kid with amazing mysterious powers, evil second son (who is gay I'll come back to this), heart of gold but bastard oldest son (Jon Snow anyone?), mysterious powerful wizard, clueless well meaning King... You get the idea.

So this is a series of 10 books. If I'm investing my time in a series I want it to be good. I visit Amazon to read the reviews and one starts,"If I had it to do over again, I never would have started this series." And then the reviewer proceeds to talk about how every major female character is either raped or narrowly escapes it.

Well that's it. I'm out. But I want to go back first to the second evil gay son. The king comments clearly, "he didn't judge his son based on his preferences but yet by the content of his character." But the author is the one creating the character. So why even inject the evil son is not only devious and conniving, but also gay. Seriously. This is was published in 2012. Morgan rice. Maybe check your privilege?

An author can build a world and create characters in whatever way they want. But I'm totally judging you in the world you created, and to me this book had no redeeming qualities which might allow me to overlook this....more